Fear of failure
Laila had been lying down and sweating under the duvet despite the cold weather inside which was about 20°CDavid slowly rolled down the piece of duvet covering her face and told her "I have told my uncle we are coming tomorrow."He turned her face upright as her eyes were still closed."You seemed to have a headache?"He looked longish at the placid beautiful long face and chewed his lips, about to cry as the past flooded into his head.The most beautiful girl he loved!If he not that time had seen her in the restaurant with a man kissing, he would have not felt this dagger now piercing his heart. He sniffed.He imagined how many times they had kissed with her eyes closed in absolute surrender as he saw her, how many times the man had run his palms up and down her curves till her knees wobbled. How many times she had been carried to his bed as her knees wobbled?Who removes her underwear? She or him?Right there where she was lying, he visualized how this beautiful wife had given her most cherished body to another man! What did they do behind, behind... before coming to that restaurant?He punched his fist and drops of tears from his eyes dropped down on her lips, her new lips and she shuddered."Dear," Laila, startled, enclosed him into the chain of her arms and he fell face down beside her."Oh! Dear" Agitating, she turned and held him tightly, both of them, weeping profusely and she pleaded "Am sorry, making you cry, cuz I have a headache."David, to sympathize, turned and gripped him."Sorry," he gasped out.She nodded to his words and he asked her why she had a headache. He felt her forehead."...afraid, uncle may find out." She sniffed."He will not," he assured, getting up, his phallus was long and hard in one side of his pair of trousers.She grabbed his hand firmly to pull him back, he wrenched it off with extreme bitterness.Since she came back, he had not done anything with her. From what he saw in that restaurant, she deserves to die! He quaked and clenched his teeth and his jaw muscles rose out like a man fighting a leopard.The best solution is just death! Death! Death! Kill us together! He lit a cigarette.Romeo has returned: Laila panicked, and coiled back into the duvet, afraid of what she saw.Inside the duvet: Pat. Pat...Pat coming to this Nebraska!" she shivered." Laila! You are Laila! " she told herself and firmed up her mind with her earlier resolve to find this Atlas Corp and keep away from, in, and around it.About to go see David's uncle, he was now in Nebraska. From Nebraska, he shuttles to Territory A in Denver to his office at AB Corp when he needs to.Laiila had a hat pulled down her brow to shield her face from Mr Roberts.She turned to David to approve, if it would serve the purpose. The lips were fuller that they must pull eyes to her. The nose lifted a bit, making her look like a girl who doesn't care a hoot, which is a bad impression for a girl visiting her would-be husband's relations.She was jittery." Oh, dear. Would he look at me critically?""His wife will be there.""Oh! How old?""Why? Oh!" David remembered. "Over 45."Men don't look like morons in the company of their young wives." Come, let's go " David dragged her out of the vanity table, still holding her wrist till he guided her into the car."If things go contrary, dear. What will you do?" she asked in the rear with David."Since yesterday fear has made you sick and you are still fearing.""But, to you, sure no qualms?"" Yes! Yes!" David was getting irritated.She took his arm and placed it at her bosom and felt relaxed, as she doubled her palms tight, on the back of his.She has a good reason to be afraid. But the revelation of her identity may come from the unexpected quarterWhere is she from?"Even my Dad and Mom could not recognize me." Laila speaking, affirmed, " Sure, Mr Roberts won't! Hope he is the only problem?" She gave David a hard look and a smile."Yeah," David concurred," Soon, " he said, "we will try our game.""Hehehe," she exclaimed, asking. "When?", intoxicated by her anticipation.She took a mirror, turning her face before it."I will tell him tomorrow I want to get married," said David."Okay. You are mature, after all. Then...?""Normally, they will ask who is she?" David pointed out."They? Mr Roberts and?" she asked, agitation, over her face "His wife and John, my brother and wife," David counted."I haven't seen them," she said, "Except Mr Roberts, would they pose a problem?" She was curious, and she added," We aren't going to be telling them long stories of the past. Isn't it?" storming David with a steely look. *. *. *David before Roberts, his heart cut. Liars know how to keep their faces straight. But here was David, who had n
Their security dashed out and they opened their doors. David took her arm and they walked in.In the living room, Mr Roberts' wife, despite scanning her like she was once a criminal, was God's providence for her escape.She said to Mr. Roberts," David has found a soulmate, let's give them our blessing."With the way the interview and the inspection were cut short, Laila's heart pounded. Back at the old statehouse, Laila's mom was on the line. "What happened? Your line had been of these days?"She had offed her phone because of Dr. Pat."Well, Dr Pat is at the gate. What will I tell him? But make sure that David or Evid is not pretending to be rich o.""Mum he is Super rich! Please, tell him, he should talk with me that I am not a baby. Period" Laila spoke gingerly as if Dr. Pat was eavesdropping.Dina, Laila's Mom relayed to her their live discussion with Dr Pat."Somebody told me she saw her at the airport."Dina parted her arms."Do I know? She didn't tell me anything."After liste
When she said " I do ", Dr. Patrick shuddered.The "I do" came from the altar, a distance of twenty meters. The voice of his fiancee, Laila? Dr. Pat walked out from the pew and squeezed through the personalities, eyes on who was in the veil. He went back and sat down in the pewHe was sure whom he saw. By her voice, when she said 'I do'. By her hips inside the crafted Dubai wedding dress. The hips he had traced both sides at least thrice; up and down, up and down. With eyes closed, he could tell these hips belonged to Laila He has to ask her how it happened. When did you know my boss, Laila? Were you double-dating? He thought of the best approach: Call her with a different number, ask her how come. Or, lie low and overlook her? The pain may go away one day. How would the pain go? Is there another Angel God will send on an errand he could trap on the earth?Laila has the sexiest shape, her hazel eyes always like she wanted to sleep any time she was responding to his kiss. Oh! Laila
Dr Pat Dead?"That Dr Pat is dead? Just like that?""What did they say happen? "Whisper: a female partner he took to the chalet..."Did what?"Another news came: He hasn't died. He's still breathing." Oh! What a shame! What would his wife say?""Does he have a wife? Do you know?""Oh. Hope the CEO won't hear this!""How won't he hear it? A director? ""Have you heard anything?" asked Laila, as David came back from business travel.He traveled with some officials of Atlas Corp for mining in Namibia and on their way from the airport, they had a stopover at the office where the news was broken to them. Mr Cliff heard it in whispers before it was broached to him."About my director, isn't it? " he asked Laila."That's a fuck up, mehn." David damned him."So, did he die?" Laila questioned and doubled her question, "Was he at our wedding?" she asked, in a bid to screw out something. Dr. Pat, being alive was not good at all. O Gosh! She jigged her fist and David said, "Yeah, he attended
Dr. Pat was the man who kissed LailaLooking at the picture, Laila asked," What could be the partner's grouse?""Who knows! The same thing I asked," said David."Anything other than love?" asked Laila." Men, who could not control their libido." she stared back at David." Well. He said if he recovers, he will visit. Then, we will know." said David."You seem to have interest in the matter." Laila said."A CEO! Peeping into the affairs of his workers ." She taunted David."Oh. I did not see it that way," said David. Though, he understood Laila's viewpoint, his being an extrovert was humane. He did not grow up knowing what is gossip or wickedness. As a young man, 27, born with a silver spoon, he had never been worried or lived in an environment of wrangling. He was just learning the tropes now, which is why he procrastinates, or it seems he is weak on Laila. Laila crossed her leg over him and one thing led to another. There was a display of affection. A long kiss.He does not hate her
"I have forgiven the family. They have made their reason known and it was understandable.But Laila, she will be the wife who suffered the most revengeful act from a husband." David was soliloquizing.Her parents have understandable reasons for treating him like a useless Son-in-law, but what reason has she to kiss another man so passionately in my presence? Mind you, the divorce was not anything to me. "One could divorce out of anger but to kiss another man with eyes closed, soul raptured...mehn." He jiggled the glass in his hand, his head full, he hit the bottom of the glass on the table. It did not break but the bottle of the Cognac quaked.His head was full and he called himself a useless son-in-law but his happiness is that he is taking care of his in-laws All are camped in his house in Nebraska awaiting the construction of their new house. A dangerous fire three weeks ago ate the whole solid mansion of the Andersons and not even a pin was removed from the inferno. Laila's cer
They chose to open the residential house with fanfare. The Andersons. It was a double celebration with a spoiler. A sad thing happened and in this age of the internet, it was everywhere.Mr Roberts' wife called her husband's attention that this story was similar to David's."But her brother killed himself. How do you see it, Roberts?" she asked her husband."You mean?" Mr Roberts asked."You mean? "She repeated, meaning Mr Roberts was not sharp enough to catch up." David is just an ajebo, with no experience." She was making the news clear to him " He could have been hoodwinked!""It can't be David's in-law." Mr Roberts read the news again. "Roberts, call your cousin. Stop reading! Who else was an adopted son-in-law, divorced and thrown out and he hit it big and spent lavishly for his In-laws?" "But David married a new wife and has had no connection with Laila. Though, the present one is Laila too which means nothing.""Thomas. Take, call him." Martina gave Mr Roberts her phone."Dav
What is your stand?Laila noticed that David was reacting to something. The mattress was shaking, and he got up.She gripped his arm." David! You must tell me that! That thing that makes you agitate, that makes you break everything!"Holding his arm still, she stood out of the bed too and supported her right hand with her other hand."Leave my hand. Nothing." David said, both of them facing each other, standing." Lie! Tell me! Did I steal?"David grinned widely and his hands compressed her cheeks, reshaping her lips. Sensing how her lips could look, she beat off his hand and David regained freedom and said"Go and shower." He walked into his bathroom as she repeated herself. " I am married here! Nothing will remove me here!"She took her bath, and off to the fashion industry.Everyone in the Fashions And Fashions LTD knows her. With eyes, they know she came from the royal family. But humble. Though her car was burnt in the inferno that gulped her parents' home, she did not want to d